COURSE OF STUDY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does course of study mean? 

• COURSE OF STUDY (noun)
  The noun COURSE OF STUDY has 2 senses:

1. an integrated course of academic studies

2. education imparted in a series of lessons or meetings

  Familiarity information: COURSE OF STUDY used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COURSE OF STUDY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An integrated course of academic studies

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

course of study; curriculum; program; programme; syllabus

Context example:

he was admitted to a new program at the university

Hypernyms ("course of study" is a kind of...):

info; information (a message received and understood)

Meronyms (parts of "course of study"):

course of lectures (a series of lectures dealing with a subject)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "course of study"):

crash course; crash program; crash programme (a rapid and intense course of training or research (usually undertaken in an emergency))

reading program (a program designed to teach literacy skills)

degree program (a course of study leading to an academic degree)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Education imparted in a series of lessons or meetings

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

class; course; course of instruction; course of study

Context example:

flirting is not unknown in college classes

Hypernyms ("course of study" is a kind of...):

didactics; education; educational activity; instruction; pedagogy; teaching (the activities of educating or instructing; activities that impart knowledge or skill)

Meronyms (parts of "course of study"):

class period; course session; recitation (a regularly scheduled session as part of a course of study)

coursework (work assigned to and done by a student during a course of study; usually it is evaluated as part of the student's grade in the course)

lecture; lecturing (teaching by giving a discourse on some subject (typically to a class))

lesson (a unit of instruction)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "course of study"):

art class (a class in which you learn to draw or paint)

workshop (a brief intensive course for a small group; emphasizes problem solving)

shop; shop class (a course of instruction in a trade (as carpentry or electricity))

seminar (a course offered for a small group of advanced students)

required course (a course that all students are required to take)

refresher; refresher course (a course that reviews and updates a topic for those who have not kept abreast of developments)

propaedeutic; propaedeutics (a course that provides an introduction to an art or science (or to more advanced study generally))

orientation; orientation course (a course introducing a new situation or environment)

industrial arts (a course in the methods of using tools and machinery as taught in secondary schools and technical schools)

home study (a course of study carried out at home rather than in a classroom)

extension course (a course offered as part of an extension service)

elective; elective course (a course that the student can select from among alternatives)

directed study (a course of study that is supervised and controlled by a specialist in the subject)

course of lectures (a series of lectures dealing with a subject)

correspondence course (a course offered (by mail) by a correspondence school)

childbirth-preparation class (a course that teaches pregnant women to use breathing and concentration and exercise techniques to use during labor)

adult education (a course (via lectures or correspondence) for adults who are not otherwise engaged in formal study)

 Context examples 

A Physician Assistant who has completed a defined course of study and has undergone testing by the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants (NCCPA).

(Certified Physician Assistant, NCI Thesaurus)

If college is on your mind, you may be entering a new course of study at the university.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

I found the rules of the establishment were too strict, its course of study too severe for a child of her age: I took her home with me.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

An associate's degree awarded upon completion of a course of study usually lasting two years with areas of concentration in mathematics, natural sciences, or technology.

(Associate of Science, NCI Thesaurus)

An associate's degree awarded upon completion of a course of study usually lasting two years with a focus on engineering.

(Associate of Engineering, NCI Thesaurus)

A document certifying the successful completion of a course of study.

(Diploma, NCI Thesaurus)

In choosing persons for all employments, they have more regard to good morals than to great abilities; for, since government is necessary to mankind, they believe, that the common size of human understanding is fitted to some station or other; and that Providence never intended to make the management of public affairs a mystery to be comprehended only by a few persons of sublime genius, of which there seldom are three born in an age: but they suppose truth, justice, temperance, and the like, to be in every man’s power; the practice of which virtues, assisted by experience and a good intention, would qualify any man for the service of his country, except where a course of study is required.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

An associate's degree awarded upon completion of a course of study usually lasting two years with a focus on business, including the processes of interchanging goods and services (buying, selling and producing), business organization, and accounting as used in profit-making and nonprofit public and private institutions and agencies.

(Associate of Business Administration, NCI Thesaurus)